当伦纳德·培根（Leonard Bacon，1887—1954））进入耶鲁大学的时候，他的家中有五人是该校教员。实际上，他父亲和母亲的家族成员曾长期因那个机构而闻名。
培根先生的教育经常被寻求健康的旅行打断，1909年从耶鲁毕业。一年后，他按照家庭传统过快乐日子，在加利福尼亚大学教新生英语，不久在同一个系成为助教。战后的几年，他作为少尉在美国空军服役。
尽管如此，他一生都在写诗，1923年才开始出版它，从此放弃教书，把全部时间奉献给写作。他结了婚并有三个女儿。他的家在罗德岛的皮斯戴尔。
他的作品有：《乌鲁伯克》（1923），《博士们》（1925），《安妮缪拉·维哥拉》（1926），《珍珠鸡和其他家禽》（1927），《昆瑟博德传奇》（1928），《失去的野牛》（1930），《狂热情调的乐曲》（1932）。翻译作品：《塞尔维亚谣曲》（与G.R.诺伊斯合作，1913），《罗兰之歌》（1914），《熙德的短诗》（与R.塞尔登·露丝合作，1919），《首都的鹅》（1936），《韵律与惩罚》（1936），《布林格的跳跃》（1938），《半个世纪》（1939），《桑德兰俘获》（1940，获1941年度普利策奖）
Reverend Leonard Bacon (February 19, 1802 – December 24, 1881) was an American Congregational preacher and writer. He held the pulpit of the First Church New Haven and was later professor of church history and polity at Yale College.
Biography
Leonard Bacon, D. D.
Leonard Bacon was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was the son of David Bacon (1771–1817), a missionary among the Indians in Michigan and founder of the town of Tallmadge, Ohio. There his sister Delia Bacon, later a major Shakespeare scholar, was born in 1811.
Leonard Bacon prepared for college at grammar school in Hartford, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1820, where he was a member of Brothers in Unity, and from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1823. From 1825 until his death he was pastor of the First Church (Congregational) in New Haven, Connecticut, occupying a pulpit which was one of the most conspicuous in New England, and which had been rendered famous by his predecessors, Moses Stuart and Nathaniel W. Taylor. In 1866, however, though never dismissed by a council from his connection with that church, he gave up the active pastorate; still, in 1868 he was president of the American Congregational Union.
From 1826 to 1838, he was an editor of the Christian Spectator (New Haven). In 1843 he was one of the founders of the New Englander (later the Yale Review), and in 1848, with Richard Salter Storrs, Joshua Leavitt, Joseph Parrish Thompson, and Henry C. Bowen, he founded The Independent, a magazine designed primarily to combat slavery extension; he was an editor of the Independent until 1863. From 1866 until his death he taught at Yale: first, until 1871, as acting professor of didactic theology in the Theological Department; and from 1871 as lecturer on church polity and American church history. He has traveled to the Middle East (then "Greater Syria") in the middle 1800s to visit holy sites, and gave lectures on his experiences, at least one of which was published in the New York Times.